ANOMALA. 153 



5. The terminal tooth of the front tibia is sharp, and the 

 inner front claw very shghtly dilated. 



Length, 14-17 iinn. ; breadth, 8-9 mm. 



CTnitku PKOAaNCEs : Jolikote ; Sixkim : Gopaldtiar;i, Kiing- 

 bong Valley (H. Stevens); Bengal : ISarda (F. W. Champion), 

 Piisia (May), Buxar Duars ; Madras: Granjam Dist., Parlakimedi, 

 Bogga Forest (2'. V. Eamakrishna, April), Bangalore, 3nO0 ft. 

 (May), 8. Arcot, Palni (7'. V. Eamakrishna, August); Ceylon: 

 Kandy (C. F. S. Baker, A])ril), Peradeniya {T. Bainhrigge 

 Fletcher, April); S. China. 



Type in the Stockhohn Museum. 



lu the amount of dark pigment this species varies very greatly, 

 pre.senting a series of phases exactly |)arallel to those of ^4. ruji- 

 capilla, Burin. It may be distinguished by the fact that the dark 

 thoracic patclies are not divided by a narrow pale line, but tend 

 to run together without extending to tlie base of the pronotum, 

 which has practically always a pale border. 



The females are, on the whole, darker than ttie males, although 

 there is no di\iding line between the light and dark forms. In a 

 long series collected by Mr. H. Stevens in Sikkim females are four 

 times as numerous as males and, although some are pale specimens, 

 two-thirds of them are dark and only narrow thoracic margins 

 and shoulder-patches upon the elytra remain pale on the upper 

 surface These dark-coloui'ed specimeno appear never to bemales. 



This is one of the commonest and mosr widely-distributed of 

 Indian beetles. Mr. Bainhrigge Fletcher has found the larva at 

 the roots of oats in Pusa, and the beetle at the foot of a pipal tree. 

 It has also been observed to attack the leaves of plum trees. 



132. Anomala riificapilla. (Plate II, fig. 40.) 



Anomala rtijicapilla, Biirm.,* Handb. Eut. iv, 2, 1855, p. 499. 



Testaceous, with the head, the extremities of the tibiae and the 

 tarsi dark red, and with a large patch on each side of the pro- 

 nf)tum, the extreme edges of the elytra, a broad sutural line and 

 another extending obliquely from the shoulder almost to the 

 sutural angle and partly or entirely fused with the lateral margin, 

 black or nearly black. 



It is shortly oval in shape, convex, smooth and shining. The 

 head is rather finely and densely rugose, and the clypeus broadly 

 semicircular. The pronotum is finely punctured, with the sides 

 evenly rounded and the base finely and completely margined. 

 The elytra are deeply and finely punctate-striate, with the sub- 

 sutural interval broad and closely punctured. The pygidium is 

 transversely strigose. The front tibia bears two strong teeth and 

 (generally) a very feeble third tooth, the hind tibia is rather 

 inflated before the middle, and the longer claw is cleft on the 

 front and middle feet. 



S . The terminal tooth of the fro)it tibia is sharp, and the 

 inner front claw is slightly dilated. 



